TRoP - Harfoots Migration Route

In episode 5 Nori tells us about the Harfoot migration route:

“We winter in Old Forest, and mid-summer, we make for Norfield Glen to snail while the snailing is good. And at the first blush of oak leaves, we head to the Grove. A whole orchard, popping with bar apples, plums, apricots, carrots...”

Old Forest – This can’t be the Old Forest in LotR where the Hobbits met Tom Bombadil. That is located northeast in Eriador. Nori may be referring to Greenwood the Great, later known as Mirkwood in the Third Age. Old Forest may have been were the Harfoots were eating snails in episode 3.

Norfield Glen – Not shown on TRoP maps. Norfield Glen is probably somewhere in the northern part of the hilly region to the south of Greenwood.

Weedbrook - a branch of the Anduin River. Possibly were the conversation between Nori and the Stranger occurred at the beginning of episode 5.

Undercliffs - a few thousand years later, they would almost have
been able to see the Argonath in the distance at the north end of the lake Nen Hithoel from here.

Trout Bend – where the fishing must be good

Grey Marshes - which presumably will become the Dead Marshes after the Battle of Dagorlad. Here we see the abandoned cart and the Harfoots being attacked by insects like the Hobbits at Midgewater Marsh.

Thistledell – and finally camping near the Braids, which look like a group of rivers heading southeast and maybe into Sea of Rhun eventually

The Grove – not included on TRoP map but it must be a lush place with many fruit orchards and vegetable gardens.

Approximately a journey of about 600 miles, 1,000km

Ref:Late_Stage_PhD

Artwork:PrimeVideo

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